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Scheduling is the process of deciding how to commit resources between a variety of possible tasks. Time can be specified (scheduling a flight to leave at 8:00) or floating as part of a sequence of events.

Scheduling may refer to:

• I/O scheduling, the order in which I/O requests are submitted to a block device in Computer Operating Systems
• Scheduling (broadcasting), the minute planning of the content of a radio or television broadcast channel
• Scheduling algorithm
• Scheduling (computing), the way various processes are assigned in multitasking and multiprocessing operating system design
• Scheduling (production processes), the planning of the production or the operation
• Schedule (workplace), ensuring that an organization has sufficient staffing levels at all times
• Job scheduler, an enterprise software application in charge of unattended background executions.
• Job Shop Scheduling, an optimization problem in computer science.

See also

• Schedule
• Notation for theoretic scheduling problems

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